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Images depict early industrial work environments, including mining operations and brewing plants, showcasing people at work in historical settings.

Separate Parts Of The Beer Brewing Plant 1906 August Dressel (b.1862) Watercolor
Separate Parts Of The Beer Brewing Plant 1906 August Dressel (b.1862) Watercolor
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Worker in workplace, Paul Bodifée, c. 1876 - in Or Before 1936 print Boy with his hands in a bowl that contains red liquid, sitting on the floor in an interior with a barrel and buckets with red spots on it.  paper. printing ink  working class, labourers
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Here you see, dear youth! The carpenter, the bricklayer, the blacksmith and the shoemaker work. What did everyone need to be handicraft [(...); Print warehouse for the youth; Crafts. Sheet with 4 performances of craftsmen: a carpenter, a bricklayer, a blacksmith and a shoemaker. Above every performance a title, under every performance a caption. Numbered at the top right: No. 13.
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Two Egyptian men operate a Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system - the pivot arm lifts a bucket which raises water onto a higher field level.      Date: circa 1910s
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Attributed to Pietro Ciafferi, Galley under Construction Galley under Construction
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Without title Potato harvesters on land. Potato harvester working on the land, in the foreground farmers kneeling on the ground, in background plowing farmer with horse
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Manufacturing Pots and Kettles in Kawaguchi. Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan, 1847-1915). Japan, 1879. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print
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Jacquard power loom. In 1801 Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) invented a method of weaving intricate patterns which were encoded on punched cards. The swags of punched cards carrying the pattern for this early 20th century power operated loom are clearly visible.
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Construction worker at work, possibly on the Westermarkt in Amsterdam. Possible piling work. Page 61 and page 62 from a sketchbook with 42 sheets.
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Workers at work, possibly demolition work, George Hendrik Breitner, c. 1903  Workers at work, possibly demolition work. Possibly a cart in the middle. Page 31 and page 32 from a sketchbook with 46 sheets. Amsterdam (possibly) paper. pencil  demolition of building. crafts and industries (+ labourers ~ crafts, industries, agriculture)
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Iron Forge 1772 Joseph Wright (1734-1797 British) Collection of Lord Mountbatten, Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England
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North Korean mechanical repair factory. Watercolour painting by Kim Chun-gwang. 1963.
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Der Kohlenstreik Szene in einem Kohlebergwerk / The Coal Strike Scene in a coal mine From the book The Year 1912 illustrated published London 1913, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,
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Workmen constructing palace, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Elves Operating Minneapolis Moline Construction Machinery, Farm Machinery
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At the weaving workshop YANAGAWA, SHIGENOBU (1787 1832)
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Worker in steel factory. .
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Coal mining, Anthracite Region of Pa. Loaded cars being placed on cage to be raised to surface , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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A man making oil in an oil mill with the help of a camel. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
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Are you ready for the spring sowing, 1932. Soviet propaganda poster by Alexei A Kokorekin. Stalins First Five Year Plan. Russia USSR Communism Communist Agriculture Tractor
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Bessemer converter in a steel foundry     Date: 1907
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The use of the pottery in the oven of the Sphinx in Maastricht, Herman Heijenbrock, 1881 - 1948 drawing   paper.  names of organizations, companies, trade unions, etc.. ceramics industry. fire, oven, furnace ~ interior of industrial structure Maastricht
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An employer shows visitors the hard working labourers in his steel mill. late 19th century France. French illustration 1890
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New pole , Utility poles, Linemen. Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940). Prints
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Construction site in rue du oven.
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The keepers at the gate' A farmer on 'Prosperity Road' stopped at a gate labelled 'Dingley Tariff', standing in his wagon, handing a heavy bag labelled 'Toll' to a well-dressed bloated man labelled 'Monopoly' sitting on a large pile of moneybags labelled 'Trust Profits'
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Heiwerk on the Overtoom in Amsterdam, c. 1912 drawing  Amsterdam paper. chalk  building-site (+ labourers ~ crafts, industries, agriculture). ramming, driving piles (~ building activities) Vertoom
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Tea Factory in Chakva, Ginevsky, Arkady Osipovich (1903-1958)
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Millard Quarry,  (The Hershey Quarry,  at Hershey) by Saverio di Magno,  oil on canvas,  USA,  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania State University,  College of Earth and Mineral Sciences,  Steidle Collection
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Construction of a Railway Line, 1841. Digging a cutting on the Great Western Railway. Broad gauge line by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) appointed engineer to the GWR in 1833. Artist: George Childes.
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This French farmer's wife has  an electric cooker, radiator,  water heater, iron, boiler,  washing machine, sewing  machine and ventilator      Date: 1961
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Engineering Wonders, 1927: Tunnelling Shield used in construction of London underground railways.
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Galland and Granjon mechanical picker. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1893
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'Tapping a Steel Furnace', c1930. Creator: Unknown.
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 Examining a carburettor in a  garage.        Date: 1928
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Motorman, Occupations
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Miner, Occupations
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The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialization, and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess
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De Glasfabriek in Leerdam: Vlaktlijming, Herman Heijenbrock, 1900 - 1930 drawing  Netherlands Carrier: Paper. List: Wood (plant material). List: Glass   Leerdam
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Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, alum industry, alum work, mining of salt in open-cast mines, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, date unknown
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'At the Factory', 1927 by Alexander Deineka. .Engine works for the manufacture of steam railway locomotives. Russian.
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Drying stockfish cod in Nusfjord authentic traditional fishing village with traditional red rorbu houses in winter in Norwegian fjord. Lofoten islands, Norway, Europe
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Man Laying Brick.
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People picking cotton , Cotton pickers, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Air Raid Precautions': Set of 50 cards issued by WD & H0 Wills, Britain 1938, in preparation for the anticipated coming of World War II. Light trailer fire pump in action drawing water from pond to fight house fire.
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In the USA farm prices slumped while industry boomed in the 1920s. 'Well, farmers never have made money' siad Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President of the USA (1923-1929).
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Europe, Belgium, Charleroi. Marcinelle, Le Bois du Casier, miner portrait
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A tea plantation in China: workers trim the harvested tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
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Harvesting scene in Florida's orange groves , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Best Portland Cement, Soviet Commercial Design
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Harvesting scene in Florida's orange groves , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Workers! The October Revolution Gave You Factories and Free Labor Rabochii, Oktiabr'skaia Revolutsiia dala tebe fabriki. 1919. Posters. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Soviet Union , History , 1917-1936, Political posters, Russian
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Pork packing in Cincinnati, four scenes in a packing house: "Killing, Cutting, Rendering, and Salting
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Workers and the Power They Wield, Chinese Communist Propaganda
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Workers at the Furnace, Chinese Communist Propaganda
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Russian Communist art: advert for cement
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Vintage safety poster warning miners in Dutch, French, German and Italian language not to light a cigarette, smoke cigarettes inside a coal mine
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A color work by Mihály Biró from 1912-1913 showing a Prussian coal cutter, emphasizing figure, activity, and industrial environment.
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Naive wall painting, excavators and trucks in a landscape during earthworks, Bruckberg, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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Permanent exhibition at the Nachtigall Colliery, Witten, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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